The girl was spending the night with a friend when the friend’s mother, Stephanie Carlile, woke the girls up at 2 o’clock Saturday morning and told them they were going to North Carolina.

At 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon, the girl’s mother called Murfreesboro Police to report her daughter had been kidnapped. The girl’s mother had called her around noon Saturday and asked her when she would be coming home.

“(The victim said Carlile) had taken her to North Carolina and that she was told she would be staying another night,” MPD Officer Skye Bradley reported.

The mother then talked to Carlile, who refused to tell her the address they were staying at and said she would take the girl to the Greyhound station in Asheville, N.C. if the mother wanted her daughter returned home.

“(The mother) went on to say (Carlile) was very angry and was name calling and cursing,” Bradley said.

MPD was able to locate the girl in Weaverville, N.C. by use of her cell phone and contacted the Buncombe (N.C.) County Sheriff’s Office, who located the girl quickly.

A family friend and the girl’s father was able to pick her up in North Carolina and return her to her mother in good health.

No charges have been filed against Carlile at this time.

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In a separate incident, Murfreesboro Police are searching for two black females accused of shoplifting at The Avenue and running down a woman in the parking lot.

MPD Officer Skye Bradley spoke with Amanda Fitts, an employee at Hollister Co. after two women allegedly came into the store, grabbed two purses and more than $500 in merchandise, and then ran out of the store laughing and yelling obscenities.

“Both suspects got into a vehicle and purposely hit Ms. Fitts as shoe was trying to get out of the road,” Bradley reported.

Witnesses on the scene corroborated Fitts’ story and said the two women are frequent shoplifters at the store.

The women were described as a 5’4”, 120 pound black female with long black hair and fake eyelashes. The driver of the vehicle, a white Pontiac Aztec, was described as a five- foot, nine-inch black female with short black hair and hot pink bangs.